{"id":581,"date":"2018-02-28T20:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T01:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/americanicons\/?p=581"},"modified":"2018-02-28T20:58:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T01:58:29","slug":"the-two-faces-of-the-statue-of-liberty-in-the-feminist-movement-by-emily-grimaldi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/americanicons\/2018\/02\/28\/the-two-faces-of-the-statue-of-liberty-in-the-feminist-movement-by-emily-grimaldi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Faces of the Statue of Liberty in the Feminist Movement by Emily Grimaldi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"The moment I thought to write about the Statue of Liberty as a strong female icon, I immediately found some depiction of her deep in the abyss of my television knowledge. The animated Netflix show, Big Mouth<\/em>, follows the exploits of young teens trying to navigate the art of becoming an adult. In the second episode of the series, the kids take a field trip to the Statue of Liberty, where Jessi gets her first period. The Statue of Liberty takes Jessi into her hands and gives her the harsh facts about being a women in today’s society.<\/p>\n

Portrayed as a French-speaking, cigarette smoking, doesn\u2019t-take-crap-from-anyone\u00a0kind of woman,\u00a0the Statue of Liberty asserts herself as the strong, independent figure we believe she is. However, she is a hopeless pessimist who does not find any inspiration in herself. Even when Jessi accuses the\u00a0Statue of being a bit cynical, the Statue sarcastically\u00a0apologizes for not being \u201cmore America, sunny\u00a0Mickey Mouse\u201d. Here, not only does the\u00a0Statue of Liberty represent women, but she depicts the age\u00a0old struggle of women by\u00a0saying that life is hard and there aren\u2019t very many good things about being a\u00a0woman in a\u00a0male driven society. Liberty has stood in the New York Harbor for decades and has yet to see a woman rise to power in America.<\/p>\n

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This is quite contrary to how we as Americans view the Statue of Liberty. As Bodnar points out,\u00a0women during the suffrage movement used the statue as a symbol of their cause.[1]\u00a0These women addressed the contradiction that a woman had become the symbol of a land where women had no rights. Because this movement succeeded, we regard the Statue of Liberty as an inspiration and representation of a confident, powerful woman. She is optimistic and hopeful. She is a positive and figure. She is a strong, independent woman. We believe she is here to inspire us, which is where the Big Mouth<\/em> portrayal comes in. Some believe she is antiquated while some believe she is still relevant. Some believe there is still some inspiration to be found while some believe the torch has gone out. Some have hope that a woman\u2019s place in society will change while some are resigned to the current state of affairs. These various understandings and interpretations truly make the Statue of Liberty an American icon.<\/div>\n
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1. Bodnar, John<\/span>,\u00a0Laura Burt<\/span>,\u00a0Jennifer Stinson<\/span>, and\u00a0Barbara Truesdell<\/span>.\u00a02005<\/span>.\u00a0The Changing Face of the Statue of Liberty<\/span>.\u00a0Bloomington<\/span>: Center for the Study of History and Memory, Indiana University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The moment I thought to write about the Statue of Liberty as a strong female icon, I immediately found some depiction of her deep in the abyss of my television knowledge. The animated Netflix show, Big Mouth, follows the exploits of young teens trying to navigate the art of becoming an adult. In the second …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[284,206],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-big-mouth","tag-statue-of-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/americanicons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/americanicons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/americanicons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/americanicons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/americanicons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/americanicons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/americanicons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/americanicons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/americanicons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}